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  • Doorknob Bombshells in Therapy

  • The Deadline, the Brain, and Why It Is Important to End on Time
  • By: Daniela V. Gitlin
  • Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
  • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins

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Doorknob Bombshells in Therapy

By: Daniela V. Gitlin
Narrated by: Ann Sprinkle
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Publisher's summary

What should a therapist do when a patient reveals critical information at the end of a session?

It's a near-universal experience among mental health practitioners: a patient drops a bombshell—a critical disclosure that moves the treatment forward—on their way out, with a hand on the doorknob. This "doorknob moment" creates a stressful dilemma for clinicians, especially when the patient is distraught. Should the clinician end the session on time, or run over and be late for the next patient?

Here, seasoned psychiatrist Daniela V. Gitlin provides clinicians with a clear, evidence-based answer. By conceptualizing the functional differences between patient and therapist in the treatment relationship as a metaphor for the functional differences between right and left cerebral hemispheres, Gitlin's argument yields a comprehensive explanation for why doorknob moments occur, why they are necessary to prevent treatment stagnation, and why ending on time makes patients feel safer to deliver them.

©2024 Daniela V. Gitlin (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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